Fioretti v. Massachusetts General Life Insurance

How later courts describe this case

• holding attorneys’ fees available for willful failure to pay maintenance and cure, but no additional punitive damages allowable
• requiring a state corrections officer to wear a flag patch on his uniform does not force him to participate in symbolic speech or compelled expression, and in fact, communicates no message at all under all of the circumstances
• when “plainly clear” that law of competing states is the same, courts may look to law of forum state to decide the issue, a method which “enjoys the additional virtues of being more streamlined and less time-consuming, since only one body of law need be employed to resolve the dispute”